Piedmont Environmental Council

And there's a lot of different people that are working on these issues.

The people that I've worked with so far, a lot of environmental law organizations like the Southern Environmental Law Center, the Piedmont Environmental Council, these have been kind of on the forefront of thinking about how the decisions around fossil fuel infrastructure might impact their communities.

You know, I mentioned Lackawanna County.

I'm really excited to be working with a county who is really looking for unbiased scientific information and data that we can present for them to make informed decisions.

And I would say there is a growing interest in, it's not necessarily private sector, but more philanthropic.

work, but then also studies being done by people who are trying to farm, uh, who are doing, I mean, they're smaller sample sizes, but so the, there's a dual use facility where I am now in Virginia, that's down the road in Aldi, um, that's owned and operated by Piedmont Environmental Council.

And they have a, it's a really cool, it's a small project.

It's 17 kilowatts.

One such plan is the Jefferson Area Bike and Pedestrian Plan from 2019.

This was one of the outcomes of a Strengthening Systems grant that the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission and the Piedmont Environmental Council were awarded by the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation in 2017.

One of the many projects listed in the Implementation Strategies chapter is a bridge over the Rivanna River to connect Albemarle's Pantops area with the Woolen Mills area.

Here is a section from one of five bulleted points for that section.

Local council members said they were also notified when Vantage changed its site plans to include gas turbines.

A study commissioned by the Piedmont Environmental Council found emissions from the power systems could lead to tens of millions of dollars in health-related damage to people living nearby.

The analysis also said pollution from the facility could cause anywhere from 3.4 to 6.5 premature deaths per year.

Vantage Data Center said the study used, you know, worst-case assumptions and added that state environmental regulators determined emissions levels at the VA-2 data center have remained within safe legal limits.